Month: May 2007
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Local Stations for Local People
So what is localness? I’m just wondering because today Xfm announced its much rumoured (within the radio industry at least) initiative to get rid of its daytime DJs and run an “all music” daytime schedule. Between 10am and 4pm each day, Xfm will be running “Radio to the Power of U.” And this will happen…
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Uncool Flickr
We all know that Flickr is really cool don’t we? I mean, I’ve certainly always thought so. Until now. That’s why I was appalled to read this post from Rebekka who’s easily one of the more famous Flickr photographers. She put up a composite of several photos she’d taken of her home country Iceland and…
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Sky on Freeview
The whole Sky on Freeview situation has become quite complicated, and it hasn’t been made a great deal clearer today. To recap: back at the start of February, on the day that Virgin Media launched, Sky announced that it wanted to launch it’s own DTT platform. Sky is a part of the Freeview consortium, and…
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Random Media Stories
Even if John “Foghorn” Sweeney did come out as a bit of a clown towards the end of the Panorama on Scientology, they remain a somewhat sinister “religion.” And “sinister” is not a word that any religion should really want itself to be described as. You’ve got until next Monday to watch it again online.…
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A World in Your Ear
There’ve been one or two pieces recently bemoaning the sad departure of several treasures from Radio 4 and Five Live including in particular A World In Your Ear. Essentially, it’s too expensive and labour intensive to put together. I must admit that it’s one of those programmes that I know I enjoy, but never find…
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ITV’s Schedule Tonight
Here’s ITV’s schedule tonight: 19:00 Emmerdale [Farm] – Trashy daily soap 19:30 Coronation Street – Less trashy nearly-daily soap (Never watched and not about to start) 20:00 Road to Ruin: Tonight – Sir Trev introduces a film he may not have even watched. All about the state of our roads. 20:30 Coronation Street – Episode…
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TV Credits
Charlie Brooker’s Guardian Guide column yesterday was not devoted to any programmes at all. Instead he rightly broad the barrel of his guns to bear on new BBC commissioning rules regarding end credits. Now this might sound like something of an esoteric subject, of little concern to anyone other than editors who need to ensure…
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Stoppard Season
According to The Stage, Radio 3 is putting together a Stoppard Season. This is expected to include the recent Rock’n’Roll as well as Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead. I’m hoping that Radio 3 opens up its archives and repeats its 1993 production of Arcadia featuring the original cast. I never did get around to cleaning…
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Uri Geller Sued
Excellent news: Uri Geller is being sued (Via Bad Science).
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Currys/Dixons to Stop Stocking…
I can’t believe the number of times that Dixons Stores Group can put out effectively the same press release, and still get the media lapping it up. Today, it’s the shock-horror news that they’re no longer going to sell blank cassettes. Are we going to get this same story every time DSG makes a decision…
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Arsenal v Chelsea
To Arsenal to see the final game of the season. A draw meant that Man Utd deprived Chelsea of the Premiership title. But isn’t it just typical of Mourinho that when the steadicam operator was circling him as he want onto the pitch he swears at the cameraman. The BBC’s highlights carefully cutaway in time.…
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Horizon Revisited
Maybe I did Horizon a little bit of a disservice a few weeks ago when I moaned about the appalling state of it. I still stand by everything I said then, but it’s become obvious that the BBC front-loaded this run of the series with poorer programmes. It’s still true that some of the subject…